Congregational Chapel
CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214119
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, THE STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/08010/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214119
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 36629 93642
Details
SY 3693 CHARMOUTH THE STREET, SOUTH SIDE
8/28 Congregational Chapel 5.9.60
G.V. II Congregational Chapel. Tablet on northgable: "founded 1689, rebuilt 1815 "founded 1689, rebuilt 1815, restored 1866, restored 1963". Stone walls, rendered. Asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable end to street. North elevation: 2 storeys, 2 windows wide with round heads. Wooden window frames with Y tracery. Small lozenge leaded panes with green and yellow rippled stain glass. Main door at centre, 2 leaf with a round-head and Y tracery fanlight. 6-panel door with panelled jambs. The east wall is buttressed; both east and west walls contain round- headed windows. The interior is plain with a gallery on 4 slim iron columns at the north end. Reeded pilasters and arch over at the south end, in wood, plain imposts. Reading desk, wood with convex panelled front, early C19. 2 Memorial Tablets on north wall. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 88 (2).
Listing NGR: SY3662993642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104713
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 88
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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